Improvement in running-gears



G. BURG-E. Running-Gear.

Paitent-d 'sept.28,1815

":PETERS. PKOTOJ-ITNOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, D. 64

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GOTTLIEB BURGE, or KITTANNING, BENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN RUNNING-GEARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 168,l36, datedSeptember 28, 1875 application filed J une 2, 1875.

To all whom it may concern: ter or' rest plate 0 of the front axle ismade Be it known that I, GOTTLIEB BURGE, of with the turning-pin 0 solidupon it, to pass Kittanning, in the county of Armstrong and through ahole in the plate E above, the up- State of Pennsylvania, have inventedcertain per surface of, the axle being the turn-plate. new and usefulImprovements in Buck-Wag- .The plate E has its ends extended upward ons5 and do hereby declare that the followand outward at an appropriateangle to form ing is a full, clear, and exact description theslat-raisers e e, which act as braces to thereof, reference being had tothe accomsupport.the upper part of the wagon. Its panying drawing and tothe letters of referfront part has a projection, a, turned down at encemarked thereon, forming a part of this an angle below the axle, forminga bearing to specification. receive the end of the coupling-rod b. ()11My invention relates to that class of fourthe under part of thecoupling-rod, near the wheeled vehicles in which the forward and end, isa set-screw running through the couprear axles are connected in such amanner as ling-rod and into the axle to keep them in to dispense withthe ordinary head -l)lock, proper position, and further security to theking-bolt, and fifth-wheel; and it consists in parts is afforded by asafe-bolt, d, placed at the construction and arrangement of the vatherear of the axle and passing from the cenrious parts of a buck-wagon, asmore fully tral slat to the coupling-rod, which bolt may hereinafter setforth. be tightened when required by simply turn- Figure 1 represents aside view of wagon. ing the nut at its lower end. Fig. 2 is aplan viewof the under surface of The central cross-bar Uis also made of body orbed frame. Fig. 3 is a front view of metal with ends bent upward andoutward body. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation of the for the purpose ofgiving support to the cenforward coupling. Fig. 5 shows the manner terof side bars at the point where the elliptic w in which the centerconnection of couplingsprings rest, and being firmly bolted to the rodand back-stays is made, by means of a slats It combines them with eachother and clevis and center-connection bolt, and Fig. 6 with the sidebars, so as to provide a solid is a side view of the center connection.position for the center coupling, which is thus A represents thebed-frame, composed of rendered perfectly safe and easy. the metal sidebars f, wooden slats h, and By dispensing with the ordinary head-block,metal cross bars or bolsters O 0, all securely fifth-wheel, andking-bolt, with their numerfastened together by meansof clips, bolts, orous clips, bolts, and nuts," likely to become rivets g, in the'usualmanner. B B are the loose and displaced, simplicity of constructionaxles supporting the plates forming part of is attained withoutimpairing the strength of slat or body raisers c e. The axles are conthevehicle or losing any of the advantages nected with each other by thecoupling-rod b for which those parts weredesigned, and the andback-stays m, which unite at the center body of the wagon beingsupported upon elcross-bar O to form the center coupling or lipticsprings resting on-the side bars an easy, main. connection, beingsecurely joined by agreeable motion is imparted to it. means of aclevis, D, and its bolt 0 attached I claim as my inventionto the undersurface of the cross-bar. This 1 The plate E, provided with hearing a,in clevis is riveted to the cross-bar and central combination with thecoupling-rod b and rest slat, and has depending arms, through whichplate of axle 0, having turning-pin 0 solid the bolt 0 passes, the endsof coupling-rod upon it, as and for the purpose specified. and staysbeing placed between the arms of 2. The combination of the coupling-rodb, clevis, and afterward held in position by back-stays m, clevis D, andconnecting-bolt means of the bolt referred to, thus forming a o, withthe center cross-bar G, slats h, and secure central coupling. Theback-stays are side bars f, all constructed substantially as connectedwith the rear axles by means of a shown and described.

a clevis with clips or nuts, in the usual man- 1 GOTTLIEB BUBGE. [L. s.g" ner. Witnesses: v

- In Fig. 4: of the drawing is represented a LOUIS GRIEB,

section of the forward coupling a, b. The cen- M. B. MORRISON.

